GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1985

[Omni]

Agreed. I'd put The Prophet in my top 10 if those tracks were better. It would be somewhere in my top 20 with them factored in.

 

[CiG]

I'll add this shit up if you like @Phylactery, I'm free as fuck this whole weekend.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Nice avi, CIG.

 

[CiG]

I think I'll stick with this one for awhile.

 

[CiG]

1. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1. Helloween - Walls of Jericho

 

[Talos of Atmora]

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It's the lack of Watchtower that surprises me. You'd think that would be right up his alley too.

 

[CiG]

Yeah that is pretty strange. Though I'm less surprised by what I quoted and more wondering why he listed two albums in the 1st place spot.

I ended up bumping Watchtower out of mine for Fates Warning. Sorry dude.

@Funerary_Doom and @HamburgerBoy you two have posted long unranked lists, don't forget to finalize them and if you could do so in the next couple of days that'd be good.

@Burkhard which album is the true 1st place in your list and which is the true 2nd place album?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I ended up bumping Watchtower out of mine for Fates Warning.

 

[CiG]

That's exactly what I did to Energetic Disassembly.

 

[Phylactery]

I'll add this shit up if you like @Phylactery, I'm free as fuck this whole weekend.

Yes please, that would be a great help. If you PM me the results I will then do the countdown. Cheers.

 

[CiG]

No worries, just waiting on the 3 people I tagged and then I can tally it all up.

 

[Phylactery]

Pretty sure Hamburgerboy’s list is in order. You just need to count the first 10. If Burkhard having both at number 1 wasn’t a typo then you’ll have to do the maths and split the points accordingly.

 

[CiG]

I'll wait a day or two for confirmation.

 

[Burkhard]

Yeah that is pretty strange. Though I'm less surprised by what I quoted and more wondering why he listed two albums in the 1st place spot.
@Burkhard which album is the true 1st place in your list and which is the true 2nd place album?

I put both on no. 1 - it's not a typo, thus both get 9.5 points. Before re-visiting all albums, I would have put Fates Warning above Helloween, but even though "Walls of Jericho" isn't perfect (yet neither is "The Spectre Within"), songs like "Ride the Sky", "Phantoms of Death" and "How Many Tears" are too good to rank "Walls of Jericho" lower than "The Spectre Within". Well, maybe in a couple of months, I might think differently, but this is what I feel now. Fun fact: I got both albums and Agent Steel's "Skeptics Apocalypse" on Christmas Eve 1985 - it was a great day, music-wise.

Concerning Watchtower, I though about including them and listened to the album 7 times, but while "Control and Resistance" surely will make the top 3 of 1989, "Energetic Disassembly" never made a big impression on me. Sorry, but musical tastes are different.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i think a bunch of you forgot to list Bestial Devastation

 

[CiG]

while "Control and Resistance" surely will make the top 3 of 1989

Same, I definitely prefer the sophomore myself.

I put both on no. 1 - it's not a typo, thus both get 9.5 points.

Is that allowed? What's to stop someone from making an entire list of 1's?

i think a bunch of you forgot to list Bestial Devastation

I only include full lengths in my lists. Also it wasn't released on its own until 1990, so for a 1985 game technically you would be voting for the split LP, not just Bestial Devastation.

Killer fucking record though.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

it's from '85, regardless of it being on a split or not. And lol yes i know, i actually have numerous copies of the album(including the split).

 

[CiG]

If you say so lol.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... which part do you disagree with? Are you in any way implying that it's from 90 and that we should count it in the 90 thread just because it was re-released then?

 

[CiG]

No I'm saying it is officially a split record if you're doing an '85 list and I wouldn't include it in 1990 because it's a reissue of just one side of a split.

But it's not a big issue, I'm looking at the ratings and not enough people voted for it.